The joke going around last week was that a liberal, a conservative and a moderate walk into a bar. “Hi Mitt,” says the bartender. Here’s Mitt proving the point:
“This week, President Obama will release a budget that won’t take any meaningful steps toward solving our entitlement crisis,” Romney said in a statement e-mailed to reporters. “The president has failed to offer a single serious idea to save Social Security and is the only president in mo...

One evening in mid-December, I met Walsh at ChurchKey for a quick update. It also happened to be the evening of a birthday party for Dave Stroup, the civic activist and relentlessly idealistic local Twitterato. Stroup offered everyone his business card from his day job at the Sierra Club. Then he reached into his coat for another stack of cards: “Dave Stroup. Concerned Citizen.” The card had no contact information whatsoever, just a tiny District flag in the top left corner.﻿

YMA DREAM. By Tom Meehan. In this dream, which I have had on the night of the full moon for the past three months, I am giving a cocktail party in honor of Yma Sumac, the Peruvian singer. This is stra...